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@carlrj @sukima @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird The conventions I’m describing were in widespread use long before Markdown. If there are any text corpuses of Usenet posts or mailing lists from the 90s you’d find them in use everywhere, alongside old style ascii smileys. Markdown has now drowned out the old *bold* /italic/ _underline_ and I’m apparently now an old guy shaking my fist at the sky demanding the youngsters get off the lawn.